{"id":374029,"date":"2026-07-15T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374029\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:56:08","slug":"opinion-u-s-heat-wave-stirs-reflections-on-hot-texas-versus-hot-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374029\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | U.S. heat wave stirs reflections on hot Texas versus hot Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XCSFQUDQXNCNZKROP7FLOAYF7Q\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Oanh Ngo Usadi is author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Monkey-Bridges-Ba%CC%81nh-Mi%CC%80-Sandwiches\/dp\/0999882813\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Monkey-Bridges-Ba%CC%81nh-Mi%CC%80-Sandwiches\/dp\/0999882813\">the memoir<\/a> \u201cOf Monkey Bridges and Banh Mi Sandwiches: From Sai Gon to Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7BFFGZ57PFDI3JN7O7EETYS5F4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">This summer\u2019s heat waves have brought dangerous temperatures across much of the United States and beyond. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/2026\/07\/11\/heat-wave-dome-weather\/32778fd8-7d3c-11f1-b194-f872dd4ec5aa_story.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Another one arrived<\/a> this week. I know the consequences can be serious for many, and my own discomfort is insignificant, but even on my morning walks at 7, I feel steamy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oanh Ngo Usadi is author of the memoir \u201cOf Monkey Bridges and Banh Mi Sandwiches: From Sai Gon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-374029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}